Ashiok Esper Control

Standard WUB (Esper)

Rennymoses

Land (24)

• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 3x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 3x Plains
• 3x Swamp
• 3x Tranquil Cove
• 3x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (11)

• 3x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 3x Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
• 1x Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
• 3x Teferi, Time Raveler

Creature (6)

• 4x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• 2x Dream Trawler

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Kaya's Wrath
• 4x Thought Erasure

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Banishing Light
• 4x Oath of Kaya

Instant (3)

• 3x Mortify

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 2x Fae of Wishes
• 3x Nadir Kraken
• 3x Thief of Sanity

Instant (2)

• 2x Thassa's Intervention

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ugin, the Ineffable

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Ashiok's Erasure

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Ashiok Shell Control.

My take on Esper this season, with the core being around Teferi, to ensure you can make plays safely, and to slow the opponent down, along with the baby Ashiok, which stops fabled passaged and beanstalk giant (and cards of the sort), while disrupting the opponent deck through milling and shutting down escape functions, and lastly the big boy Ashiok, who in my book, is just dope.

You have removal for everything, no matter what between Banishing light, oath of kaya, kayas wrath, and mortify. While Elspeth conquers death is cool and all, I think for the curve, you want to be doing other things with this list, and mana.

Mana engines serve simple, being Atris (who can swing games with card advantage), and dream trawler, who, let's face it, is un-killable in this format currently (aside from wraths).

Sideboard you have a bit of everything you need, whether its to compete in gumming up the board vs aggro, or having more gas and threats for the mirrors.

Hope you guys like it, and please leave comments with questions and critiques!

The last two tournaments that I went to, I ended 4-0 at an FNM and 3-0 at a Bo3 tourney... So in my opinion, the deck is very viable!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 15 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	Human 1/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Nightmare 2/3 UB, Spirit 2/2 C, Tentacle 1/1 U